Grateful Dead Vocabulary Lesson

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A circus is a group of performers or artists. So he says, "you’d have this large circus traveling essentially..."Essentially or basically. “following the band. And it was all these, like, hippies. People with like really long hair and beardsand...”A beard is hair that grows down the sides of a man’s face and also across the chin of a man’s face. So Joe goes on to say, “and like, y’know... Really sometimes like people who hadn’t like showeredfor days.” Showered. Or cleaned their body for days. Clean their bodies. And Joe sayd, “Because they were just traveling with the, y’know….” And then I say, “Yeah.” AndJoe says, “around, following the band.” And I say, “Yeah.” And Joe says, “Because, you know,especially during the summer...”Or, even more during the summer. “you’d just stay at campgrounds, y’know?” A campground is a place to sleep in a tent in the woods. And Joe goes on to say, “So you’d camp and they might not have a shower, y’know….” And then Isay, “Right.” And I laugh. And Joe says, “I remember like, so many times washing my hair, like,under a, y’know, a faucet in a sink of a bathroom.” A faucet is the metal part of a sink where the water comes out. And Joe goes on to say, “Or, y’know, under a hose somewhere.” And he laughs. A hose is made from rubber and it’s usually used outside to water plants. And then I just laugh. And Joe says, “And having someone help me because, y’know, I had the longhair.” And I laugh again. And Joe says, “Oh man, and, uh, y’know the other thing is, you’d travelaround.”

Travel around means to go from one place to another place. Travel around. For example, when I go to acountry for the first time, I do not like to stay in one place. I prefer to travel around. And Joe goes on to say, “And sometimes be driving through these really small conservative towns.” Conservative means people who do not like change. So these towns have people in them who do not likechange. And Joe goes on to say, “and you can just imagine...”Or you can just think. “what it must have been like from their standpoint.” So what he’s saying is you can imagine, or you can think what it must have been like from their eyes. Orfrom their view. From what they were seeing. Their standpoint. And then Joe says, “I mean they see these people who don’t look anything like them. I mean….” Andthen I say, “Right.” And Joe says, “they’re all clean-cut looking...”Clean-cut means having short hair and being dressed nicely. Clean-cut. For example: Derrick used to beclean-cut but now he has long hair. Clean-cut. And Joe goes on to say, “these people who live in this town. And then you have this pack of like,looks like bohemian gypsies…”Pack is just a group. A group of people. Bohemian gypsies. These are traveling artists. Bohemian gypsies. And then I say, “Uh-huh.” And Joe says, "traveling through town.” And then I say, “Yeah, that’s agood description.” Or that’s a good way to say it. And Joe says, “Y’know, so, y’know a lot of the times the cops in the town would hassle you.” Cops. Cops are police. An example of cops would be: The cops caught the bank robber. Cops. And hasslemeans to bother. And Joe says, “Y’know….” And I say, “Oh, I’m sure.” And then Joe says, “for no good reason,y’know.” And then I say, “Yeah.”